Archives for
July 2011

First Google rolls out Google+, then redesigns Google Calendar, and now it's fiddling around with Gmail. Hidden in the Themes section of the interface and named "Preview" and "Preview (dense)," the clean look is more spread out than the classic Gmail...

Jeff Ente is the director of Who's Blogging What, a weekly e-newsletter that tracks over 1,100 social media, web marketing and user experience blogs to keep readers informed about key developments in their field and highlight useful but hard to find ...

Everybody loves group buying, right? A Deal for a Cause expects non-profits to jump on the trend with an emphasis on fundraising and loyalty to causes. Where Groupon, Livingsocial and other group buying giants act as destination sites with a plethora...

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable's Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform's new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. A new userscript style makes Google+ look even more like Facebook. Since its laun...

The owners of Apple's iPad now have 100,000 apps to choose from, Macstories reports. This is quite an accomplishment given that the original iPad was launched less than a year and a half ago, in April 2010. In March 2011, there were 75,000 apps avail...

Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. Google Redesigns Gmail, Google Calendar Goo...

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UPDATE: Village Voice staffers and managers have reached an agreement and thus avoided a strike, according to spokesperson and staff writer Graham A. Rayman. “We won on two essential points with respect to our health benefits in that employees will c...

The latest spoof on a classic MasterCard ad campaign comes from one of the credit card company's best known adversaries. "There are some people who don't like change," ends the short video that was recently posted to Vimeo. "For everyone else, there'...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. It’s almost impossible to understate the importance of having and using st...

Music subscription service Grooveshark has really started to rally for indie artists of late. First, it launched a channel for emerging artists with Indaba, and now it's partnering with label services company Rocket Science to help up-and-coming arti...

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Twitter and at least one company that builds applications using its data, according to multiple reports. Why Twitter is under investigation is not yet clear, although the FTC's antitrust arm appears to be...

Discussions about Google+ dominated the online discourse on social sites as June came to a close, but a flurry of other hot topics got their fair share of attention throughout the month, including the Les Paul Google doodle, the Pope's first tweet an...

The fifth annual iTunes Festival kicks off on July 1 in London, but you can watch it from anywhere via iTunes on your computer, or on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with the app. The festival runs from July 1 through July 31 and will feature more th...

After months of speculation, social gaming juggernaut Zynga has finally filed for an IPO that could raise $1 billion. Zynga's S1 filing, which we are going through now, reveals that the company has 60 million daily active users, 232 million monthly a...

Mark Zuckerberg told reporters who were visiting Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday that the company plans to announce "something awesome" next week. Now it looks like the company is following through with its plans. Mashable received an invitati...

In Zynga's S-1 filing for its $1 billion potential IPO, the company opened its briefing with a visual representation of some of its most compelling statistics. SEE ALSO: PHOTOS: Zynga Files for IPO | 11 Interesting Facts From Zynga's Filing The infog...

Adobe is responding to the backlash against Apple's new Final Cut Pro X by offering Final Cut customers 50% off Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Between July 1 and September 30, video professionals that have purchased any version of Apple Final Cut Pro or A...

A good number of us over at Mashable have become thoroughly obsessed with new startup Turntable.fm. Therefore, we have decided to spread that obsession by launching our very own Turntable.fm room, where you can join us in some Friday spinning. If you...

If you're planning on some BBQ action this Fourth of July weekend (and let's face it -- it's basically unpatriotic not to), then we have a host of super-fun accessories to bring some geeky goodness to your gathering. From prep to grilling, right thro...

Google already owns the most-viewed online video site, YouTube. Now it might be picking up the video site with the most ad views as well. The company is in preliminary talks to buy television streaming site Hulu, the L.A. Times reports. According to ...

On this day in 1979, the TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan. It was a notable milestone for music and gadget lovers everywhere as the first affordable portable audio cassette player -- Sony's first Walkman. Years after the "Walkman" name was as synonymous ...

The age-old screwdriver has met its match with this design concept called Coral Tools. The multicolored multi-tools look like tripods, but each leg is actually a cover that conceals a flat head screwdriver, a Phillips-head screwdriver, a nail-steadyi...

Mashable Comics are illustrated every week by Kiersten Essenpreis, a New York-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com. More Mashable Comics: - Online Predators - First-Generation GPS - It Was All Just a Huge Misunderstanding - HOW TO: Parent ...

Hulu has given users the ability to comment on specific moments of videos and share those moments on Facebook. This is hardly Hulu's first integration with Facebook -- the video site launched Hulu: Watch Now Fall Premieres apps in 2009. But now Hulu ...

The international print editions of The Guardian and The Observer are among the earliest casualties of the Guardian News & Media's (GNM) evolving "digital first" strategy. International copies, printed in New York, Frankfurt, Madrid, Malta and Cyprus...

Facebook's "awesome" announcement next week has been spoiled. The social network will reportedly be unveiling a Skype-powered video chat platform. Facebook's Seattle team was behind the new feature, according to TechCrunch. Skype and Facebook already...

Above: Zynga's S1 filing in word cloud form Zynga has filed for a $1 billion IPO. If all goes according to plan, the social gaming juggernaut could be worth more than $15 billion. Zynga's impressive stats are part of the reason for its sky-high valua...

Mariusz Cieply has been with LiveChat since its founding in 2002, first as software developer, later as project manager and now as its CEO. For more info on LiveChat, follow @livechat. Customer satisfaction has long been the Holy Grail for retailers....

Now that projectors have gotten so small, Sony's decided to shoehorn one into a camcorder. At first glance, the Sony HDR-PJ50 Handycam looks like an ordinary camcorder, but the outside of that viewscreen holds a special secret: a tiny projector Sony ...

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